[Cosmo Journal Club] Two-photon amplitude interferometry for precision astrometry
Jim Rich
DPhP
Tue, Nov. 17th 2020, 11:00-12:00
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Article by Paul Stankus, Andrei Nomerotski, Anže Slosar, Stephen Vintskevich

 

Improved quantum sensing of photon wave-functions could provide high resolution observations in the optical benefiting numerous fields, including general relativity, dark matter studies, and cosmology. It has been recently proposed that stations in optical interferometers would not require a phase-stable optical link if instead sources of quantum-mechanically entangled pairs could be provided to them, potentially enabling hitherto prohibitively long baselines. A new refinement of this idea is developed, in which two photons from different sources are interfered at two separate and decoupled stations, requiring only a slow classical information link between them. We rigorously calculate the observables and contrast this new interferometric technique with the Hanbury Brown & Twiss intensity interferometry. We argue this technique could allow robust high-precision measurements of the relative astrometry of the two sources. A basic calculation suggests that angular precision on the order of 10μas could be achieved in a single night's observation of two bright stars.


https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09100

 

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